Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-21
LOCAL BREyITEs.


The Sacramento river at dusk last even
| ing had receded to II feet inches.
The alarm of fire about 5 O'Clock last
evening was occasioned by the burning out
of chimney.
A snow-plow from the Salt Lake Di.
vision of the Central Pacific Railroad left
tie city yesterday for the Shasta Division
of the California and Oregon Railroad, to
take the place of the pillow recently disa-
bled up there.
Officer Sullivan on Saturday arrested a
Chlnaman named Tuck Yu for receiving
stolen property number of Chinese
kitchen and dining-room articles-which
another Chinaman had stolen from a
fellow countryman.
Joe Shepard, commonly called "Old
| Shep," was arrested on Saturday by officer
going to pieces very fast, and during
such weather as we are having is
| better off in Jail than out.
about s o'clock last evening, but I'D to
midnight it had not been followed by
| heavy showers, although the indications
| were favorable for storm. On the hill
last night bad weather appeared to have
set in again.
There was large attendance yesterday
afternoon upon the funeral of the late
George II. Harvey, which took place under
the auspices of Sacramento Lodge, No. 3,
l. o. o. F., and the Exempt Firemen's
Association, of which organizations he
was member.
Company B, of the First Artillery, Cap
tain Cook. leaves this evening for Nevada
City, to spend Washington's Birthday,
guests of Company G, of that place. Judg-
ing from the arrangements made by the lat
ter organization, the Sacramento boys are
in for jolly good time.
About o'clock last evening two young
men had an unpleasantness on K street,
between Third and Fourth, during which
they tumbled around for about five min
utes. Finally one of them, who had re-
ceived cut over his eye, remembered an
engagement elsewhere and ran away.
Saturday night drunken individual,
DESTROYS of doing something to distinguish
himself, drove his fist through the glass of
N. w. Robbins show window at Eighth
and X streets. He then ran away, and an
officer who went after him few minutes
later failed to discover his whereabouts.
During the fifth act of 1.-The Lights
o'London,' at the Metropolitan, Saturday
efeHihS, II. ~. heliey, tne pollcelndu III
the play, was presented with three hand
some floral pieces by the Proctor Literary
Society. Kelley was formerly a resident of
Sacramento and member of the society
named.
Mrs. Larcener, arrested few days ago
for insanity, was examined by the Commits
sioners on Saturday and pronounced in
sane. AS her mental arrangement may
have been caused by excessive use of alco-
hol, she will be detained few days at the
county Jail to see whether her condition
will improve.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly
was sent out to hunt absent members, I'M
der call of the House, Saturday afternoon,
and gathered in Messrs. Lawrence and
Hyde as they were about to leave on the
San Francisco train, which was Just pull
ing out of the depot with several other
members on board.
The Grand Army of the Republic De-
partment Encampment commences its
sessions at Los Angeles this afternoon,
and will probably not adjourn sine die
until the end of the week. A large num-
Der of delegates from Sacramento and the
upper portion of the State went down
Saturday and yesterday to be present.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
judgment of the Court below in the case of
Montgomery VS.. Locke and Holman.
Montgomery sued to recover damages from
the defendants because they had con-
structed levee upon the Sacramento river
in such a manner that the water backed
upon his land. The decision of the Supe-
rior Court was in the plaintiffs favor.
The steamer Zealandia arrived off San
Francisco from Australia Saturday evening
but was unable to cross the bar and enter
port because of the gale prevailing. A tug
attempted to go to her and get the English
mail, so that it might be forwarded East by
special train until it caught up with the
regular east-bound train, but the sea on the
bar was too much for her, and she gave up
the attempt The railroad company had
made all necessary arrangements to for
ward the mail, and an engine was waiting
here with steam up, but under the circum-
stances was not wanted.
Boys had much amusement at the Front
street levee yesterday forenoon SNOWFALL
ing, the roofs of freight cars from the
mountain furnishing them with an abund-
ance of ammunition. The young meh of
Washington, anxious to have sport of the
same character over there, came
to the city to get wheelbarrow loads of
snow, which they took to the Yolo side of
the river. For some time afterwards pass
ers along the Washington streets received
great deal of attention, more especially
those of the Chinese persuasion and eau
casians airing stovepipe hats.
A San Francisco paper states positively
that if the GREENWOOD & Morans win the
championship of the California Baseball
League the coming season-and the club
has friends who will assist it financially, SO
that it can secure good men-every men,
Der of the nine participating in the decid-
ing game will be the recipient of hand
some gold medal and suit OF clothes, to
commemorate the event. Evidently there
is sufficient interest in the national game
at Oakland to give it big boom" We
hear very little from the Atlas so far. They
need to be wideawake, and not get bad
start, as they did last year.